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文 kanji
sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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ブンモン
Kun readings
ふみあや
Words with 文
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —公文書館public records office; archives
- —石器文化stone age culture
- —若者文化youth culture
- —添付文書attached document; attachment; insert; (medication) package insert
- —変体漢文Japanized version of classical Chinese (used from Heian period onward)
- —共同文書joint communique; joint statement
- —女流文学women's writing; literature written by women
- —四大文明the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
- —物質文化material culture
- —精神文化moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.)
- —生活文化culture of everyday life
- —文化住宅semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s
- —活字文化culture of the printed word; book culture
- —舞文曲筆twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth
- —中国文学Chinese literature
- —単一文化monoculture
- —文脈依存context sensitivity
- —黙示文学apocalyptic literature
- —文学運動literary movement
- —組織文化organizational culture; culture of an organization
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